What’s a tree without roots? Usually it’s the kitchen cabinet or a sheaf of inkjet paper, but for Maine artist Jacob Galle, the answer is a lot less complicated. A suspended forest in Brunswick By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 30, 2010

Any New Englander worth his salted cod knows that the key to beating seasonal hibernation-induced depression is adherence to one simple motto: Leave The House. Banish winter blahs with energizing outdoor fun By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 11, 2009

"I think we had a major impact on the thinking going on in the Legislature," says Rob Brown, executive director of Opportunity Maine, the non-profit that previously focused on keeping young, educated Mainers in the state, which submitted its own energy- Galvanizing the troops around efficiency By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 22, 2009

Fears doesn't like the particular prison where he now resides. He would prefer to be in one near his family in Arizona, and not in solitary confinement. Sent to Supermax solitary confinement By LANCE TAPLEY | April 10, 2009

The cluster of small shacks that comprise Jim's Smelt Camp in Bowdoinham look like a tiny shantytown; were that it was so — I would move right in. Love letters to Maine By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 28, 2009

As severely mentally ill Maine State Prison inmate Ryan Rideout prepared to hang himself from a sprinkler in his cell on the night of October 5, 2006, other inmates frantically pressed panic buttons in their cells. Silencing alarms By LANCE TAPLEY | March 05, 2008

The Green Party is contracting, to the point where that’s about the only place it has any political impact, and once you get outside Portland, Green candidates for the Legislature are rare as profitable paper mills. Politics and other mistakes By AL DIAMON | March 29, 2006

Now it seems that what we never thought would happen, has occurred: South Dakota has passed a law outlawing virtually all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest. Readers fire back on South Dakota's abortion-rights bill, the recent Band Guide issue, and the breakup of the Maine Citizen Leadership Fund By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | March 08, 2006